John Dewey: “The tree stands only when rooted in the soil; it lives or dies in the mode of its connections with sunlight, air and…”

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.